West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-04-21

SnhN NaCates the same.
Rev. Graham and Joseph Jack
son returned home Saturday from
the meeting of the West Virginia
Presbytery at Morgantown.
Prof. Purinton, OF Morgantown,
has been offered the Presidency of
the Iowa State University. and will
probably accept the situation.
-Rowlesburg will have better
base ball team the coming season
than every before. Morgantoun
papers are requested to copy this.
Salt is selling at IS per barrel
in Webster county. That county
recently voted down proposition
to subscrib TO this capital stock of
railroad.
The ReUeilIe, handsome six.
column paper published 10y Marion
II. Davis, at Salem, Harrison coun.
ty, is The latest newspaper venture
in our State.
Rev. Graham has been elected
as a delegate to the Grand Assembly
Of the Presbyterian church, which
will convene at Omaha, Neb., an the
i9th of May.
-KingwOod is bidding hard for
the NJ. +, Female Seminary. This
is probably the best location that
could be found anywhere in the State
for such an institution.
--Messrs. Hoke and Dawson left
for Charleston on Monday. Mrs.
Dawson accompanied her husband
as far as Parkersburg where she will
visit for some time.
-Corb Maust, indicted for forg-
ing an order for suit OF clothes,
was tried last week and acquitted.
He was then tried for selling a forg.
ed note and was found guilty.
George Martin, q brother of DR..
Martin, Of this place. has rented the
Morley House and will open it to
summer bOarders and the travelling
public about the LIST of June.
Two candidates for the county
suprintendency OF free schools have
already announced themselves.
There may be others in the field be
fore election day rolls around.
The Ii. & o., on Wednesday,
declared 8 dividend of per cent,
on the Main Stem, and 5 percent, on
the Washington Branch, for the past
six months. Pretty good stock yet.
The new air shaft being Sunk at
the Orrel Coal Company's shaft at
Newburg has reached a depth of 275
feet. 1t will have TO be put down
about 80 feet deeper before the coal
vein is reached.
We are glad to hear that Post
Master F. NJ. Dent, of Newburg, is
back from Baltimore where he was
undergoing medical treatment for
some time, and is very much i'm.
proved in health.
Ayers Cathartic Pills are suit
ed to every age. They are mild and
pleasant in action, thorough and
searching in effect, and, being sugar.
coated, are easy to take. These pills
never fail TO give satisfaction.
Charleston, this State, wants a
tobacco factory, q rolling mill, a
blast furnace, and the devil only
knows what all else. And the pos.
sibilities are that she will get none
OF the enterprises named.
The Cheat Mountain Sportsman
Association will shortly erect a tele.
phone line from Grafton, In Taylor
county, To Winchester, Randolph
county, at which place will be loca.
ted the club house Of the Association.
We learn that an attempt TO in
dict several parties in town for sell
ing Jamaica ginger was made before
the last grand jury, 1t was only an
attempt, we guess, as no indictments
were found against the parties allud.
ed tO above.
Last Thursday night the Jail at
Charleston Has delivered Of its oc.
cupants-eight prisoners, in all.